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Halloween Recipe: Thomas Keller Oreo Bat Cookies

Looking for a good Halloween sweet to bake up before Beggar's Night? Here's the famous Thomas Keller Oreos (TKO) — crunchy chocolate cookies, with a white chocolate ganache sandwiched in between...

Cookie Baking: Try Membrillo in Thumbprint Cookies

One of our favorite fall treats is tender little thumbprint cookies filled with jam — a small indulgence, quickly baked, and great with an afternoon cup of tea. We usually fill ours with raspber...

The Best Chewy Chocolate Cookies Ever (& Low-Fat Too)
Recipe Reviews

Do you like chewy cookies? Do you love the chewy edge of a brownie? Then these cookies are your ultimate treat. ...

How To Make Ice Cream Sandwiches At Home
Street Fair Food Week

Do ice cream sandwiches make you think of the fair? To us, they are the ultimate street food. Whether they are served from a booth at the county fair, or from the back of an ice cream truck that jus...

Mix and Match Robots: Twist And Press Cookie Cutters

Remember those books from childhood that were cut crosswise into flaps so you could mix and match characters or scenes throughout the book? You could turn over just the middle flap, or the bottom one,...

What Are Your Best Unusual or Exotic Cookie Recipes?
Good Questions

Q: I would love some suggestions on really creative cookies — the kinds that bring out the oohs and ahhs. Something with rosewater, or Indian spices, or something that isn't your plain old oatme...

Banana White Chocolate Toffee Cookies
Guest Post from Amy of Playing House

As a newbie in the kitchen, I have a hard time whipping up anything from scratch. If I can start with an established recipe, though, it’s easy and fun to improvise something new and tasty! I’m a d...

Good Question: Help Me Recreate Cookie Dough Ice Cream

Here's a very interesting question about "cookie dough" ice cream from Kristin. Read her question carefully; it's not the cookie dough ice cream you may be thinking of! About 20 years ago in New Haven...

Recipe: A Whole Lotta Chocolate Cookies
Guest Post from Tasha of That's So Yummy

Ever just want a delicious cookie recipe filled with a whole lotta chocolate? Then this your lucky day because I have one here for you that is not only a chocolate cookie itself but it is stuffed wit...

One-Pan Wonders: 6 Bar Cookie Recipes
Bon Appétit

The bar cookie is a beautiful thing. Same handheld gem as a regular cookie but far less scooping and dropping. Emma's Sour Cream Raisin Bars whetted our appetite for some interesting recipes, and Bon ...

Husband Winning Peanut Butter Cookies

When my husband and I were in the early stages of dating, I was living in Minneapolis and he was living up in the cold, frozen city of Duluth. We would drive to see each other on weekends and on Sun...

Enjoying: Animal Cookie Cutters from IKEA

This is just a note to say that we are enjoying these cookie cutters. We blogged speculatively about them in our roundup of maybe-good-things from IKEA's new catalog and then we picked them up on our ...

Recipe: Brown Sugar Cookies with a Touch of Whole Wheat

This recipe was born out of an understocked pantry. A small friend came over to "help" bake cookies, and while I was whipping up the dough I realized I was out of white sugar and nearly out of flour. ...

Searching For: Homemade Ladyfingers

If you've ever eaten a pillowy, homemade ladyfinger from a bakery, you know that the ones that come pre-packaged in the cookie aisle are about as similar to the fresh ones as a dishtowel is to a cashm...

Good Question: What Kind of Cookie Is This?

Here's an interesting case of identify-the-cookie from Marcus in Oslo. Can you help him? I'm looking for your help identifying a cookie made of almonds (I think). It is a little bit hard on the outsid...

Quick Treat: How To Make a Perfect Ice Cream Sandwich

Something about spring makes me want to throw healthy cooking to the wind. Of course there is plenty of good cooking to be done in the spring with all those temptingly fresh vegetables, but after the ...

Recipe: Chocolate Chip and Toffee Shortbread Cookies

We got this recipe from a friend of a family member. Apparently, these little shortbread cookies were the hit of the teachers' workroom at an elementary school. We figured any humble cookie that can w...

Gooey, Chewy Graham Cracker Bars

The Los Angeles Times, where we found this recipe, writes that "each bar is like a perfect miniature pecan pie baked over a wonderfully crumbly graham cracker crust." The ingredients list is short and...

Weekend Treat: Samoas Bars

So, let's say you're still thinking about those DIY Girl Scout cookies. But the idea of making cookies is a little too much work. You want to be outside, enjoying the sunshine this weekend. Well, thes...

Recipe: Mexican Spiced Wedding Cookies

I usually associate these nutty, round, powdered-sugar dusted with Christmas because my grandmother made them every year of my childhood. We called them Mexican Wedding Cakes, but they're known by man...

Culture and Cookies: Tim Tams and the Tim Tam Slam

We don't usually review packaged snack products and sweets, but here's one exception we had to make. Tim Tam cookies are now available in the United States, and this is really more of a cultural event...

Good Question: How Many Cookies Per Person?

Here is a very important question from reader Allison, who asks: I have to take cookies to a potluck party for 9 people.  I plan to take a mix of several kinds, but how many cookies should I "budge...

Looking For: Chai-Spiced Cookies Recipe

We love it when we can help track down recipes. Reader Susan wrote to us looking for a chai spice cookie recipe that she loved and lost. She writes: A few years ago, Whole Foods had a fantastic reci...

What Makes a Cookie a Cookie? Three Food Writers Discuss

What is the state of the American cookie? Three food writers, Dorie Greenspan, David Leibovitz, and Sara Dickerman discuss the definition of a cookie, what makes a cookie American, and chunky vs. thin...